Frederik Gottschalk von Haxthausen

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Frederik Gottschalk von Haxthausen
First Minister of Norway
In office
20 August 1814 – 2 March 1814
MonarchChristian VIII of Denmark
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byMarcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz
Minister of Finance of Norway
In office
2 March 1814 – 20 August 1814
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byCarsten Tank
Personal details
Born14 July 1750
Swedish campaign against Norway (1814)

Frederik Gottschalk von Haxthausen (14 July 1750 – 6 July 1825) was a Danish-Norwegian army officer, councillor of state, cabinet member and the country's first minister of finance.

Biography

Haxthausen coat of arms (1602)

Haxthausen was born in

Akershus fortress
, a charge he held until 1814. He spent the years 1808–1810 in Denmark as head of the war commissariate, but retained nonetheless all of his Norwegian posts. Haxthausen had a major influence on
Minister of Finance in the first cabinet of independent Norway
.

During the

Swedish campaign against Norway in 1814 he served as a lieutenant general, but was wrongly accused of being a traitor, and on 19 August, 5 days after the Convention of Moss, his house and garden was attacked by a mob. Haxthausen had to flee the town and withdrew from all his positions. In 1816 an impeachment
process cleared him.

After 1814, the Akershus fortress went out of operative military use, so that Haxthausen was the last operative commander of the fortress. He died in Christiania, 6 July 1825.

In 1879, a street of Oslo in the Frogner area close to his home was named after Haxthausen.

References

  1. ^ "Frederik Haxthausen". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved 30 November 2021.

Sources

  • Aschehougs konversasjonsleksikon, Vol. 9, Oslo (1957), H.Aschehoug & co.
  • Oslo byleksikon

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